Heppenstalls Solicitors in Lymington, New Forest, United Kingdom | Legal

Welcome to Heppenstalls Solicitors, Lymington, United Kingdom. Heppenstalls Solicitors is a traditional firm of Solicitors with offices in Lymington, Lyndhurst and New Milton.  We offer a wide variety of Legal services to assist you in matters that can be daunting or difficult to deal with including: moving home; matrimonial matters; drafting wills; arranging powers of attorney and more besides.

Heppenstalls Solicitors is proud to have been established in the local area for over 100 years and are pleased to offer a traditional approach coupled with a friendly attitude.

We are steeped in history and our roots go back to the year 1893 when Mr. HERBERT CULLIN HEPPENSTALL came to Lymington from Newark, Notts., where he had been in practice, and purchased the Lymington solicitors practice of Messrs. Coxwell & Pope. He occupied the first floor of 35 High Street, the ground floor of which was occupied by a Sadler and Harness Maker (35 High Street has since been removed to enlarge the entrance to the Wilts and Dorset Bus Station).  In the year 1896 Mr. Heppenstall moved to 75 High Street, which the firm still occupy to this day having only ever once vacated it in 1999 for extensive restoration works to the Grade II Listed Building and its main roof structure returning eighteen months later in February 2001.

Also in 1896 Mr. Heppenstall entered into Partnership with Mr. CHARLES EDMONDS who was in practice at Yarmouth I.O.W. The firm then carried on business at Lymington and Yarmouth under the name of HEPPENSTALL & EDMONDS until the year 1900 when the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Heppenstall retained the Lymington business and Mr. Edmonds that on the Island. The style of the firm then became HEPPENSTALLS & CO.  In the year of 1901 Mr. HERBERT KELSEY CLARK of Botley entered into Partnership with Mr. Heppenstall and the style of the firm became HEPPENSTALL & CLARK.  On the death of the Registrar of the Lymington County Court in 1916 Mr. Clark was offered the appointment which he accepted.

In the year 1920 it was considered that LYNDHURST and District would be a useful practice area and Mr. BASIL DONALD RUSTOM a Solicitor of Bristol, who joined the firm after the First World War, was invited to open an office there and to take sole charge of the interests of the firm there. Another branch office at NEW MILTON was opened on 6th February 1923,  Mr. Heppenstall retired in 1943 and Mr. Clark in 1946.